Sriram Ramgopal

Mean arterial pressure for children in US emergency department and prehospital settings

Objectives To externally validate previously reported centile curves for the mean arterial pressure (MAP) on paediatric acute care samples; derive centile curves for paediatric MAP in an acute care population and evaluate the association of age-adjusted MAP with prehospital and i...

Comparing Oscillometric and Manual Mean Arterial Pressure Measurements Among Children in the Emergency Department

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate agreement among three approaches to mean arterial pressure (MAP) measurement in children. METHODS: We performed a single-center prospective study of a convenience sample of children (<18 y) presenting to a pediatric emergency department. We compared MAP agr...

A Comparison of Pediatric Hospitalization Data in Cosmos and the Kids’ Inpatient Database

OBJECTIVE: To compare characteristics of pediatric hospitalizations in Epic Cosmos, an electronic health record-based database that aggregates voluntarily submitted data from across the United States, with nationally representative pediatric inpatient data in the Kids' Inpatient...

Futility and Termination of Resuscitation Variation for Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

OBJECTIVES To evaluate agency-level differences in determinations of futility (defined as withholding resuscitative efforts by emergency medical services [EMS]) and termination of resuscitation (TOR) during prehospital encounters for pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA...